June 29, 2011

After months of saying his position on same-sex marriage is “evolving,” President Obama on Wednesday traded that language for comments that stopped just short of endorsing the notion that gay people have the right to marry....

“I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American,” Mr. Obama said at a news conference. “And I think that principle will win out.”

The president went on: “I think we’re moving in a direction of greater equality and – and I think that’s a good thing.”

Mr. Obama used those same words – “a good thing” – to describe the debate in New York that led to last week’s passage of a law making same-sex marriage legal.

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His position evolved in the same manner Hillary Clinton's position on Iraq evolved ... right in the direction the wind was blowing. That's pragmatism for you. (As opposed to thoughtfulness or principle.)

I only know Althouse via her written words and her blogginghead "tort"uous segments. However, she is much like Martha in her dominatrix, controlling, prissy ways. I surmise Martha might be a role model, on a conscious or subconscious level.

You know, with all the pictures of obama out on the golf course(s). He's never once been seen with his birth certificate slapped up to his forehead.

Obama lies a lot. Was this the qualifier? We were also told he was an "orator," among his many gifts. But that's before we learned he couldn't memorize a speech for beans. And, has peculiar habits when he's reading from a teleprompter.

On the other hand, Martha Stewart is gets viewers. Yes. She works with her hands while she's talking to the camera.

How come Drudge is running with the headline that John Fucking Kerry says he'd have made a swell president? Don't ya have to win, first?

"Ah, I thought maybe you had an intern working on it or something. Looking forward to the grand opening."

I've had teams of people working on it for over a month. That's how locked-up my archive is inside Blogger. There's an "export" button, but that doesn't mean Blogger with give up your archive when you want to break free.

If you wait too long and get too large before you try to get out, like me, you'll look like this.

Once described as "a frolicky pansexual sex symbol for the new millennium", Cumming has stated that he considers himself bisexual, "although the pendulum has obviously swung".[18] Prior to the civil union, Cumming dated both men and women. Previous relationships include a two year relationship with actress Saffron Burrows, a six year relationship with theater director Nick Philippou, and a 1985 marriage to actress Hilary Lyon that lasted eight years.

Evolution brings up animals and animal rights. Obama is way behind. Most of us are already thinking about animal marriages, and cross-species arrangements. Gay is old news when it comes to humans. We should be thinking instead about animal marriage. The president should put a second gear into his mental wheelchair.

The question of animal divorce should not be sniffed at. If animals can marry, should they be able to divorce? If a lion marries a hippo, should they decide that "irreconcilable differences" prevent a true union of souls? I think not. At least if I were the Pope of such unions it would be rare that I would grant a divorce. The animals might yowl and snip at one another, but I think they would work it out, eventually. So, yes to animal marriage. No to animal divorce.